In my job we were out in the field on a blood mobile, we had laptops, but to get into patient files from a main hub we needed air cards to pick up internet when we were out in the sticks, they went into the USB port, could he be doing a remote download like that since these computers are not supposed to be connected to the internet?
Wifi and bluetooth dongles the size and shape of a USB drive do exist. If he has that, and the computers in question have crappy enough security, then yes it's physically possible that he just connected to the internet.
With that said, there are simpler attack vectors that would make more sense using just a USB drive.
If any of the above is even possible in the first place then the system is broken and the election is horribly compromised and should not be trusted. We're basically on the honor system nationwide at that point. Might as well just let people walk in and vote as many times as they want to.
Until every voter is given a chance to verify that their vote is counted, and counted accurately, the election is bogus. It is possible to produce such a system where the counting process is transparent, the only thing necessary is that it would require every single voter confirming their vote in order to trust it. If not, the system is bogus. The funny thing is, that idea of a system, even with lazy voters who do not verify, would still have more integrity than the current system.
It has always been the case that , it is built that way. Even the voting machines themselves are severely vulnerable to compromise (in fact it was proven that Domninion's voting machines were running an over 5 year old build of Android, which comes with 5 years of vulnerabilities in Android and Linux kernel, and that report was made as recently as THIS YEAR).
There has been some public attention on the vulnerability of voting machines, ever since the Diebold-brand machines used in the 2000s, but for some reason, there is no public attention on the rest of the process, the most important part.
That's why I believe all of the software ever released by companies like Dominion to local governments should be made available for everyone to retrieve. Also, any system software they produce for their own hardware (like voting machines) should be made available, at least in their released form.
But instead, we have public officials vouching for their "intellectual property" and explicitly rejecting any analysis of their software, let alone the full public release of their software.
That's why I believe all of the software ever released by companies like Dominion to local governments should be made available for everyone to retrieve. Also, any system software they produce for their own hardware (like voting machines) should be made available, at least in their released form.
This. We wouldn't tolerate being subject to secret laws. When we place operation of our government under the control of software, that software becomes law, and needs to be opened up accordingly.
In my job we were out in the field on a blood mobile, we had laptops, but to get into patient files from a main hub we needed air cards to pick up internet when we were out in the sticks, they went into the USB port, could he be doing a remote download like that since these computers are not supposed to be connected to the internet?
Wifi and bluetooth dongles the size and shape of a USB drive do exist. If he has that, and the computers in question have crappy enough security, then yes it's physically possible that he just connected to the internet.
With that said, there are simpler attack vectors that would make more sense using just a USB drive.
If any of the above is even possible in the first place then the system is broken and the election is horribly compromised and should not be trusted. We're basically on the honor system nationwide at that point. Might as well just let people walk in and vote as many times as they want to.
Absolutely true that it is an honor system.
Until every voter is given a chance to verify that their vote is counted, and counted accurately, the election is bogus. It is possible to produce such a system where the counting process is transparent, the only thing necessary is that it would require every single voter confirming their vote in order to trust it. If not, the system is bogus. The funny thing is, that idea of a system, even with lazy voters who do not verify, would still have more integrity than the current system.
It has always been the case that , it is built that way. Even the voting machines themselves are severely vulnerable to compromise (in fact it was proven that Domninion's voting machines were running an over 5 year old build of Android, which comes with 5 years of vulnerabilities in Android and Linux kernel, and that report was made as recently as THIS YEAR). There has been some public attention on the vulnerability of voting machines, ever since the Diebold-brand machines used in the 2000s, but for some reason, there is no public attention on the rest of the process, the most important part.
That's why I believe all of the software ever released by companies like Dominion to local governments should be made available for everyone to retrieve. Also, any system software they produce for their own hardware (like voting machines) should be made available, at least in their released form.
But instead, we have public officials vouching for their "intellectual property" and explicitly rejecting any analysis of their software, let alone the full public release of their software.
This. We wouldn't tolerate being subject to secret laws. When we place operation of our government under the control of software, that software becomes law, and needs to be opened up accordingly.